that I be an effective teacher by emphasizing higher-order meaning construction more than lower-ordered skills, maximizing reading opportunities, integrating reading and writing with multiple subject areas and providing opportunities to discuss what was read (Cunningham, 2011, pg. 2). In my classroom, I want to acknowledge and support each student as an individual learner, engage the students’ interest and demonstrate the relevance of reading and writing to their lives, participate as a fellow learner
parents’ perceptions of their family’s reading habits at home The purpose of the teacher survey was to gain insight regarding other teachers’ perceptions of reading comprehension, problems they encountered, and solutions they implemented in their classrooms. The purpose of the running records was to find each student’s instructional reading level so that comprehension activities could be implemented for every student with a text that could be easily read by them. Over one fourth of the students were
Running Head: CLASSROOM OF THE FUTURE Classroom of the Future Abstract The classroom for future students in a normal school system could look drastically different in the next millennium. Electronic classrooms offer instructors a variety of multimedia presentation tools such as interactive white boards, laptops computers for each student, plasma screens for a computer projector, and computer generated simulations and animations. The following paper describes the ideal technically advanced
Communication Competencies Center University of Puerto Rico at Humacao Title V Project Aníbal Muñoz Claudio May 2005 Contents Introduction …………………...………………………………………………………i General Objective ………….…………………………………………………………ii Specific Objectives ……………..…………………………………………….………ii How can you use this module? ……….……….……………………………………...1 Part I. General Knowledge of Essay Structures and Content…………………………………2 Part II. Writing a Comparison and Contrast Essay…………………………………….………3 Part III. General Review:
ESL/Bilingual and Special Education Written by: Mia Ariela Allen May 2010 Research-Based Best Practices in L2 Literacy Developing Reading Comprehension Skills for English Language Learners Research guiding questions: * How should classroom reading instruction practices best meet the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse students? * Is there a need for unique pedagogy to meet the literacy development needs of culturally and linguistically diverse students? * Can the
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Design for Learning (UDL). A study on alternative education for children suggests oversimplifying learner differences by categorizing students into two groups, regular and special, fails to accurately represent the full diversity of learners in the classroom. ( Meo, 2010, p. 21) Therefore, UDL is a framework for designing curriculum which provides all students equal opportunities to learn, with no discrimination to individual needs. In order for students to have equal opportunity in their learning and
speak their ideas/thoughts for better formulation. Some often say, “I didn’t think of that” or “That’s a different slant.” 2. Promotes greater student-faculty and student-student interaction. Students assist each other in understanding material/content. This
The arts have a long and storied past in the United States. Through the years the arts have ranged from a luxury to a staple, rising and falling in interest and availability based on public opinion (Heilig, Cole, & Aguilar, 2010). Despite the rocky road the arts have faced, they never disappear completely. Art supporters hope to one day see a society that values the arts, and for the need to arts advocacy to vanish. Art education has many intangible benefits. Through the arts students learn how
9-810-108 REV: JANUARY 6, 2012 BHASKAR CHAKRAVORTI JANET KRAUS SHIRLEY M. SPENCE Blue Man Group: Creativity, Life and Surviving an Economic Meltdown 1 Sometimes when we look at where Blue Man Group has gone; we just sort of scratch our heads. And we think about how we started, basically just the three of us saying, “Why don’t we get bald and blue and do stuff?” — Chris Wink, co-founder with friends Matt Goldman and Phil Stanton Monday evening on July 7, 2008, Chris, Matt and Phil